Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop or Clarion Workshop for short is a renowned, annual six-week course for aspiring professional writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy literature .

history

The workshop began in 1968 as a kind of spin-off from Damon Knights Milford Writers' Conference . The initiator was the SF author and editor Robin Scott Wilson . Besides Knight, Kate Wilhelm was one of the first lecturers . Until 1971 the course took place at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania , then at Michigan State University in East Lansing . Since 2007 the workshop has been held at the University of California, San Diego .

Participation is based on a fee-based application, which includes two short stories to be submitted. Each year a committee selects 18 participants from the applications submitted. The committee consists of the regular lecturers ( Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant in 2018 ), a representative from the university and a representative from the Clarion Foundation . Karen Joy Fowler has been chairwoman of the Board of Trustees since 2007 .

Due to the limited number of participants, the selection process, the reputation of the lecturers, who are often highly respected in the genre, and above all due to the fact that a considerable number of the participants in the previous workshops have now become recognized authors, participation in a Clarion workshop already gives a certain degree Prestige and is also regularly mentioned on participants' résumés.

The 18 participants face six lecturers, with each lecturer taking on one week of the course. It is also part of the tradition of the Clarion workshops that the lecturers are often former participants who now pass on their experiences to those who follow.

The Clarion West Writers 'Workshop , which has been taking place on the west coast of the USA since 1971 , as well as the Clarion South Writers' Workshop held at Griffith University in Brisbane , Australia , are organizationally independent, but committed to the principles of the Clarion workshops and reflect this in their name which took place in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2009, but is no longer continued. Since the original Clarion workshop is now also taking place on the west coast, to distinguish it from Clarion West, one also speaks of Clarion in San Diego . The workshops held on the east coast before 2007 are also known as Clarion East .

Participants and lecturers

The following list contains a selection of Clarion participants who have now emerged as writers:

Barth Anderson (1998), Mishell Baker (2009), Christopher Barzak (1998), Adam Bellow (1976), Judith Berman (1994), Mildred Downey Broxon (1972), Michael A. Burstein (1994), Edward Bryant (1968) , Tobias S. Buckell (1999), Octavia E. Butler (1970), Monica Byrne (2008), Amy Sterling Casil (1984), Ted Chiang (1989), John Chu (2010), Robert Crais (1975), Glen Cook (1970), Alan DeNiro (1998), Cory Doctorow (1992), Lara Elena Donnelly (2012), George Alec Effinger (1970), Kelley Eskridge (1988), Nancy Etchemendy (1982), Cynthia Felice (1976), Gregory Frost (1975), Theodora Goss (2001), Gavin J. Grant (2000), Daryl Gregory (1998), Nicola Griffith (1988), Eileen Gunn (1976), Bill Henry (1997), Nina Kiriki Hoffman (1982), Nalo Hopkinson (1995), Ron Horsley (2002), Richard Kadrey (1978), James Patrick Kelly (1974, 1976), Peg Kerr (1988), David Barr Kirtley (1999), Geoffrey A. Landis (1985), Kelly Link ( 1995), Will Ludwigsen (2006), Vonda McIntyre (1970), Laura Mixon (1981), Pat Murphy (1978), Nnedi Okorafor (2001), Tim Pratt (1999), David Prill (1989), Michael Reaves (1972), Shauna S. Roberts (2009), Kim Stanley Robinson (1975), Michaela Roessner (1980), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1985) , Richard Paul Russo (1983), Sara Ryan (1991), Al Sarrantonio (1974), Carter Scholz (1973), Darrell Schweitzer (1973), Lucius Shepard (1980), William Shunn (1985), Dean Wesley Smith (1992) , Lucy A. Snyder (1995), Martha Soukup (1985), Bruce Sterling (1974), Karina Sumner-Smith (2001), James Sutherland (1969), Robert Thurston (1968, 1970), Mark Tiedemann (1988), Karin Tidbeck (2010), Karen Traviss (2000), Ian Tregillis (2005), Mary Turzillo (1985), Lisa Tuttle (1971), Jeff Vandermeer (1992), Leslie What (1976), David Wise (1971).

The lecturers of the Clarion workshops were among others the following authors (lecturers who were previously Clarion participants are marked with a *):

Saladin Ahmed , Eleanor Arnason , Steven Barnes , Christopher Barzak *, Elizabeth Bear , Michael Bishop , Terry Bisson , Holly Black , Ben Bova , Edward Bryant *, Algis Budrys , Octavia Butler *, Orson Scott Card , Suzy McKee Charnas , Ted Chiang * , Cassandra Clare , Robert Crais *, Ellen Datlow , Samuel R. Delany , Gordon R. Dickson , Thomas Disch , Cory Doctorow *, Gardner Dozois , Tananarive Due , Andy Duncan *, David Anthony Durham , Scott Edelman , Phyllis Eisenstein , Harlan Ellison , Carol Emshwiller , Charles Coleman Finlay , Jeffrey Ford , Karen Joy Fowler , James Frenkel , Gregory Frost *, Neil Gaiman , Lisa Goldstein , Martin Greenberg , Joe Haldeman , Elizabeth Hand , Harry Harrison , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Nina Kiriki Hoffman , Nalo Hopkinson *, NK Jemisin , KW Jeter , Kij Johnson *, Gwyneth Jones , James Patrick Kelly *, John Kessel , Damon Knight , Nancy Kress , Michael Kube-McDowell , Ellen Kushner , Larissa Lai , Margo Lanagan *, Geoffrey A. Landis *, Victor LaValle , Fritz Leiber , Jonathan Lethem , Kelly Link *, Elizabeth Lynn , George RR Martin , Shawna McCarthy , Maureen McHugh , Judith Merril , Kim Mohan , Mary Anne Mohanraj *, James Morrow , Pat Murphy *, Paul Park , Frederick Pohl , Tim Powers , Marta Randall , Kit Reed , Mike Resnick , Kim Stanley Robinson *, Spider Robinson , Kristine Kathryn Rusch *, Joanna Russ , Richard Paul Russo, Geoff Ryman , John Scalzi , Lucius Shepard *, Delia Sherman , Dean Wesley Smith , Norman Spinrad , Sean Stewart , Theodore Sturgeon , Michael Swanwick , Judith Tarr , Robert Thurston *, Mary Turzillo *, Catherynne Valente , Gordon Van Gelder *, Ann VanderMeer , Jeff VanderMeer , Joan Vinge , Howard Waldrop , Leslie What *, Kate Wilhelm , Sheila Williams , Walter Jon Williams , Connie Willis , Robin Scott Wilson , Gene Wolfe , Patricia Wrede , Glenn Wright .

Anthologies

  • Robin Scott Wilson (Ed.): Clarion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism from the Clarion Writers' Workshop. New American Library / Signet Books, New York 1971.
  • Robin Scott Wilson (Ed.): Clarion II: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism. New American Library / Signet Books, New York 1972.
  • Robin Scott Wilson (Ed.): Clarion III: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism. New American Library / Signet Books, New York 1973.
  • Kate Wilhelm (Ed.): Clarion SF. Berkley Medallion, New York 1977.
  • Damon Knight (Ed.): The Clarion Awards. Doubleday, Garden City, New York 1984.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry Jagoda: Top Science Fiction Writers' Program Comes to UC San Diego . In: This Week at UCSD , December 18, 2006, accessed January 13, 2017.